[Satosa-dev] Notes (was Re: Satosa governance meeting at TNC?)

On 5/31/17 1:46 PM, Heather Flanagan wrote: The other two I was thinking of are the Software Freedom Conservancy and Software in the Public Interest. Both primarily operate as Financial homes, not IPR homes. Not that I think it matters for us at the moment, but it appears CC cannot handle money either: "(by de­sign) the foun­­da­­tion can­not hold mon­ey, and is even s­­tatu­­to­ri­­ly for­bid­­den to cre­ate a bank ac­­count (which mean­s there is no po­si­­tion of chan­cel­lor in the Board of the ­­foun­­da­­tion (there is no need for such a po­si­­tion)." https://commonsconservancy.org/about/ I don't think I2 is specifically prevented from handling money (quite the opposite: TIER), but rather there are international complications that make it less feasible. More importantly, so far I have only found references to a CLA like document, but not the actual document itself (part of the "legal documents whitelist" which is supposed to be public but that I can't find anywhere). I suspect this will be the major point of consideration, as it will need specific language for a US contributor. CC appears to use "Graduation" to mean "leave the Conservancy", typically in the context of "they can reach a point at which it makes sense to estab­lish a ded­i­cat­ed le­gal en­ti­ty as a new host or­gan­i­sa­tion". This is unfortunate (because we don't need more unsustainable independent IPR holding foundations) and confusing (because Apache and Apereo use this term to refer to exiting the process of incubation and becoming a full project under the umbrella). More generally, there's almost a difference in intent between Apache/Apereo and CC. The former have specific guidance and procedures to help a project get itself into shape, with the intention of being a long term home. While CC doesn't explicitly prevent that, it doesn't appear to have sufficiently rigorous guidance, either. I guess I can ask about this stuff during tomorrow's session. I've only glanced through the documents, so I'm sure I'll have more comments later. Thanks, -Benn-